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  • May 2020
  • Mon 25
    Aaron Shurin reads from The Blue Absolute
    May 25, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 6:30 pm PDT

    Aaron Shurin reads from The Blue Absolute

    Monday May 25th at 6pm we will post video here and on youtube: Aaron Shurin reading from his latest book. You can order a copy...

    Free
  • Mon 25
    May 25, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    Porochista Khakpour / Brown Album: Essays on Exile and Identity

    Booksmith hosts a virtual event with Porochista Khakpour for her new book Brown Album: Essays on Exile and Identity. This will be a virtual event, live-streamed on our Facebook...

    Free
  • Tue 26
    May 26, 2020 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm PDT

    VIRTUAL: Amir Ahmadi Arian / Then the Fish Swallowed Him

    Booksmith and The Bindery host Amir Ahmadi Arian for his new novel, Then the Fish Swallowed Him. Please join us! This will be a virtual event, which we will be streaming...

  • Tue 26
    May 26, 2020 @ 6:00 pm PDT

    Litquake on Lockdown: Nerd Novels — A Different Kind of Escape

    As society grinds to a halt around us, many readers find themselves at home with time on their hands, yearning to think about something—anything—beyond the...

    Free – $5
  • Tue 26
    May 26, 2020 @ 6:00 pm PDT

    ODD SALON ONLINE: RESILIENT

    Stories of triumph and perseverance, hope, support, and love from times of plague and pandemic ODD SALON ONLINE: RESILIENT Tuesday, May 26, 6pm PT/9pm/ET We’re...

    Free – $50
  • Tue 26
    May 26, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Maurice Carlos Ruffin in conversation with Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

    Maurice Carlos Ruffin reading from We Cast A Shadow published by One World --------- This is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights...

  • Tue 26
    How to Raise a Reader with Pamela Paul of The New York Times
    May 26, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    How to Raise a Reader with Pamela Paul of The New York Times

    In conversation with Diana Divecha Program will air Tuesday May 26th, 7:00 PM PST Register (for free) to watch this program’s debut In a world where...

    Free
  • Tue 26
    May 26, 2020 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    Phuc Tran: Sigh, Gone

    Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Phuc Tran discusses his new memoir Sigh, Gone: A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In. Praise for Sigh, Gone “The...

    Free
  • Wed 27
    May 27, 2020 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm PDT

    Joanna Hershon & Phyllis Grant

    Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Joanna Hershon and Phyllis Grant discuss their new books, St. Ivo and Everything is Under Control: A Memoir with Recipes. Praise for St. Ivo “From the very first...

    Free
  • Wed 27
    Alta Asks Live: Matthew Zapruder
    May 27, 2020 @ 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm PDT

    Alta Asks Live: Matthew Zapruder

    Poet Matthew Zapruder will join Alta Asks Live and host Heather Scott Partington on Wednesday, May 27 at 12:30 p.m. PST to discuss his latest...

    Free
  • Wed 27
    Guerrilla Lit: Farooq Ahmed, Nicole Mabry, Peter Kline
    May 27, 2020 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm PDT

    Guerrilla Lit: Farooq Ahmed, Nicole Mabry, Peter Kline

    Dixon Place Presents Guerrilla Lit Reading Series: Virtual Edition. We are pleased to announce that the reading scheduled for Wednesday, May 27 features Farooq Ahmed,...

    Free
  • Wed 27
    May 27, 2020 @ 6:00 pm PDT

    Litquake on Lockdown: Sarah Ray and A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety

    A youth movement is reenergizing global environmental activism. The “climate generation”—late millennials and iGen, or Generation Z—is demanding that policy makers and government leaders take...

    $1 – $5
  • Wed 27
    May 27, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Alka Joshi with Angie Coiro

    This event is online. Join us for an event with Alka Joshi, your new favorite novelist. Reading during this time period can be challenging... but the...

  • Thu 28
    May 28, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Frank Wilderson III in conversation with Justin Desmangles

    discussing the subject of his new book Afropessimism published by Liveright Books / W.W. Norton This is a virtual event that will be hosted by...

  • Thu 28
    One Person, No Vote: Carol Anderson in Conversation with Congresswoman Barbara Lee
    May 28, 2020 @ 7:00 pm PDT

    One Person, No Vote: Carol Anderson in Conversation with Congresswoman Barbara Lee

    Program will air Thursday May 28th, 7:00 PM PST Register (for free) to watch this program’s debut Carol Anderson is one of our nation’s leading voices...

    Free
  • Thu 28
    May 28, 2020 @ 7:00 pm PDT

    Quarantine Storytime // Deborah A. Miranda

    During the Shelter in Place, CLA is presenting live readings online with poets, writers, and translators, and the local presses who publish them. Our second...

    Free
  • Thu 28
    photo of Brenda Hillman
    May 28, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    Round Weather Reading Series: Forrest Gander, Robert Hass, Brenda Hillman

    Round Weather 951 Aileen St., Oakland

    Round Weather art gallery is starting a reading series of earth writing and ecopoetics. Join us to see contemporary poetry shine its leading lights onto...

    Free
  • Thu 28
    front cover of Home Baked
    May 28, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    Author Alia Volz reading from Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco

    Please join us on Thursday, May 28th at 7 PM at GGP as we welcome author Alia Volz reading from & discussing her new book,...

  • Thu 28
    May 28, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    Clement: Robert Steven Goldstein

    Green Apple Books 506 Clement St, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Robert Steven Goldstein joins us to discuss his novel, Enemy Queen. About Enemy Queen A woman initiates passionate sexual encounters with two articulate but bumbling and crass...

  • Fri 29
    May 29, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT

    Zoom Forward! #11 with Jon Franzen, John Moir

    Phren-Z, The Hive Poetry Collective, and Bookshop Santa Cruz present Zoom Forward! #11 with Jon Franzen, John Moir part of the Zoom Forward Reading Series—an...

  • Fri 29
    Literary Pop!
    May 29, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Literary Pop!

    Literary Pop celebrates the moments when literature and pop culture collide. Come and listen as poets, fiction writers, essayists, comedians and storytellers share their pop...

    Free
  • Sat 30
    May 30, 2020 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm PDT

    Eastwind (virtual) Book Club

    Join Eastwind's (virtual) Book Club! This month, we are celebrating Asian Pacific American Heritage Month with C Pam Zhang's debut novel, How Much of These...

  • Sat 30
    May 30, 2020 @ 7:00 pm PDT

    Saturday Night Special presents: Escape Online

    SNS is staying safe online again for our May reading, but I'm crossing my fingers we'll be back at Nick's Lounge this summer. See below...

    Free
  • June 2020
  • Mon 1
    June 1, 2020 @ 6:00 pm PDT

    AUTHORS OF COLOR BOOK CLUB: The Revisioners

    The Ruby 23rd and bryant street, san francisco

    Jean Rhys said that "reading makes immigrants of us all," that "it takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us...

    Free
  • Tue 2
    June 2, 2020 @ 6:00 pm PDT

    Litquake on Lockdown: Ode to Our 13-Year-Old Selves

    Prompted by a fireside moment at a writing conference, these poets with varying childhood experiences of race, gender, sexuality, migration, culture and religion, will share...

    Free – $5
  • Tue 2
    June 2, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Robert Mailer Anderson & Friends

    Robert Mailer Anderson will be joined by Jacqueline Obradors, Jon Sack, with musical accompaniment by Jay Walsh (of Douglas Fir) celebrating his new graphic novel Windows on the World...

  • Tue 2
    June 2, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Sasha Abramsky – Little Wonder: The Fabulous Story of Lottie Dod, the World’s First Female Sports Superstar

    Book Passage San Francisco 1 Ferry Building, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Little Wonder: The Fabulous Story of Lottie Dod, the World's First Female Sports Superstar is a biography of a truly extraordinary sports figure who blazed trails of...

  • Tue 2
    June 2, 2020 @ 7:00 pm PDT

    America’s Most Unusual Marriage: Adam Hochschild on Rebel Cinderella in conversation with Monika Bauerlein

    Trust bestselling author and historian Adam Hochschild to unearth one of history’s forgotten heroines and give her story the page-turning treatment it deserves. Russian immigrant...

    Free
  • Tue 2
    June 2, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

    Andrew Fraknoi: Visit the Top Tourist Sights of the Solar System

    So many of us are dreaming of the places we would love to visit, hatching plans for our next vacation. Andrew Fraknoi asks us to...

  • Tue 2
    June 2, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

    DEAR EDWARD by Ann Napolitano | GGP Online Book Club

    Please join us on Tuesday, June 2, 2020 at 7 PM PDT for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of Ann Napolitano’s amazing new novel,...

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